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Jean-Henri de Castera]
        The Life of Catharine II Empress of Russia
      London - T N Longman 1798 - A biographical work on the Empress of Russia. Catharine the Great was Russia's longest ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'etat in which her husband Peter III was assassinated. Illustrated, with seven portraits over two plates and a map of Russia. Collated, complete. With the bookplate of an individual whose initial starts with 'T'. The crest to this work has the crown of a Marquess. In thecircle there isthe motto 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' which is the Latin motto f the Royal Stuart dynastyas wll as the Order of the Thistle and three British Army regiments. There is the St Andrew with the saltire in a badge to thebottom. The St Andrew is inside a star,not dissimilar to the capbatch of the BlackWatch or the starof the Order of the Thistle. This work is an English translation ofJean-Henri de Castera's biographical work. Translated from the original French. Condition: In half calf bindings with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart with Patches of rubbing to the head and tail of spines as well as to joints. Rubbing is heaviest to the head of volume III. A few spots to boards. Bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes. Prior owner's inscription to the head of title pages. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned. A few light spots to the first and last few pages. The odd spot. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books PBFA]

PINEL, Philippe.
        Nosographie philosophique ou la méthode de l’analyse appliquée à la médecine.
      Chez Maradan 1798 - 2tomes en 1 volume in-8 de 252 pp.ch. et 319 pp.ch. DSB X, 611. Édition originale. Pinel fut nommé médecin-chef de la Salpêtrière où il appliqua les mêmes réformes qu'à Bicêtre. Cette même année, il commence à donner des cours à Paris, poste qu’il occupera pendant 20 ans. Il est élu à l’Académie des Sciences en 1802. Ex-libris Dr A.C. Pacheco e Silva, sa signature autographe datée 1926 sur la page de titre. Exemplaire entièrement annoté par Pacheco e Silva, titre remonté, taché. Accroc à la coiffe supérieure. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: CLAVREUIL]

STAUNTON, George.
        1798 SECOND EDITION CORRECTED: AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY FROM THE KING
      - London 1798, Nicol. Full leather, 3 vol. set: 429+383+490p., gold stamped spines, 5 raised bands, red leather spine label gold stamped, solid copies, contemporary binding, marbled edges, "2nd edition corrected," 13.5 x 22 cm. SECOND EDITION SUBTITLE: cont.: "And a Small Part of Chinese Tartary. Together With a Relation of the Voyage Undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's Ship the Lion, and the Ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's Service, to the Yellow Sea, and gulf of Peking; as Well as of Their Return to Europe; With Notices of the Several Places Where they Stopped in Their Way Out and Home; being the Islands of Madeira, Tenerife, and St. Jago; the Port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the Islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam [Island]; the Coasts of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken Chiefly from the Papers of His Excellency The Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, His Majesty's Embassador [sic] Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of the Expedition and of other Gentlemen in the Several Departments of the Embassy." *** THE OFFICIAL RECORD: The official account of Earl McCartney's informative but unsuccessful mission to establish formal diplomatic and commercial relations with China. Staunton accompanied the Embassy as Secretary & compiled his book chiefly from the papers of the Ambassador & his fellow envoys. A fascinating true history of the expedition, useful primary source. *** By and large, the best single English language item done on China in the 18th century ! George Staunton [1737-1801] was a British diplomat, in 1774 Dr. Samuel Johnson met Staunton and they became life-long friends. Although the official mission to China failed, a wealth of precious information was collected and published in this first comprehensive official account. During this period of time, Great Britain was anxious to establish formal diplomatic relations with China and open usual trade relations. The unwilling Chinese resisted all Western foreign intervention in China. In the end Stanton's gifts and arguments were rejected by the Emperor. *** THE SECOND EDITION: This being the "Second Edition, Correct" edition of 1798. Uniformly bound in three full calf volumes, with 5 raised spine bands, gold stamped spine decorations, two red leather labels with gold stamping one the spines, [vol.1 lacking volume number label], else complete. * CONDITION: The set is solidly bound, with minimal wear to the edges. Volume 3 has mis-numbered pages 32 & 212. Also in vol. 3 there is some feint and minor stain to the edges of six locations, this is by and large in the margins, and does not affect much text. We are being overly critical, some of this is almost unnoticeable. Else the paper is very clean, no foxing or other issues. All hinges intact, there is a 3 cm. small split to the lower spine front edge of vol. 3, which has been reinforced, it is not solid and firm. There are a few old minor stains to the covers. By and large a handsome set, in period full leather bindings. The set has discreet armorial book plates. Please see scans posted to our website. **** There is bibliographical evidence that this set came with two maps a chart, but this copy has no list of maps nor any hint of maps being removed. This work was clearly bound with out any maps or charts at all. **** BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL, P.334-345. * Lust 545. * H. H. H. Cordier: SINICA 2381-82. * Hill: Pacific Voyages, p.280-281, 1628, p.250. * Maggs: Catalog no. 521:"Apart from its Chinese importance, is of considerable interest owing to the various places visited en route, including Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, St. Helena, Tristan D'Acuna, Amsterdam Island, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China, etc." * Cox I, p.334: "A most interesting account of Chinese manners & customs at the close of the 18th century." *

      [Bookseller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB]

        semanario de agricultura y artes dirigido a los párrocos tomo 1, 2,3 y 4 en dos volúmenes contienen los semanarios correspondientes del n° 1 de enero de 1797 al 104 del 27 de diciembre de 1798 con sus siete laminas grabadas completas
      madrid, en la imprenta de villalpando 1798 - Buenos ejemplares muy limpios y bien conservados en holandesa piel con puntas hemos observado en una página un defecto de plegado de imprenta sin afectar el texto.ref ber 2 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Librería balsemana International books]

RABELAIS, Francois.:
        OEUVRES DE MAITRE FRANCOIS RABELAIS, suivies des Remarques publiees en anglois par M. le Motteux, et traduites en francois par C. D. M. Nouvelle edition ornee de 76 gravures.
      Paris, Ferdinand Bastien, An VI, 1798.. 3 volumes, complete set, FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ENGRAVINGS (1798). French text, 8vo, 215 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, portrait, and 75 engraved plates, 3 folding plates of Rabelais' home, folding map, and 71 unsigned engraved plates for Gargantua and Pantagruel, pages: (4), xvi, 471, (8); (2), 624, (10); (2), 595, only Volume I has a half-title, Contents table at the end of each volume, unnumbered in Volumes I and II, bound in full old calf, expertly rebacked, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, contrasting gilt lettered morocco labels, new endpapers. Neat repairs to some corners of covers, slight rubbing and shef wear to covers, pale browning to title page, most text pages lightly browned and lightly foxed to varying degrees, one or two plates faintly browned, margins to a few plates lightly foxed, tiny hole in 1 margin, small chip to edge of 1 margin, small corner torn off 1 text page, no loss to text, small closed tear to margin of 1 page of Contents table, neatly repaired, no loss, pale browning and spotting throughout, otherwise a good set, bindings tight and firm. Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures du XVIII siecle, 843; Brunet IV, page 1059. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

      [Bookseller: Roger Middleton]

MUNFORD, WILLIAM
        Poems, and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions
      Richmond: Printed by Samuel Pleasants, 1798 - 8vo, original quarter sheep and blue paper boards. The first book by William Munford (1775-1825), a collection of verse, prose and one play. Munford was a native of Virginia and the son of Revolutionary War soldier and dramatist Robert Munford (d. 1784). In his poetry, Munford skillfully lampoons politicians, as his father did in his plays, but there are also patriotic and historical poems, such as his piece on the Battle of Fallen Timbers, entitled "A Poem on the Defeat of General St. Clair." The play is entitled "Almoran and Hamet, A Tragedy founded on an Eastern Tale of the Name." Lacking the free endpapers; some foxing and wear; overall a very good copy. Stoddard & Whitesell 610; Hill, American Plays, 194; Evans 34159; Sabin 51316 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Brick Row Book Shop, ABAA]

WORDSWORTH, William and COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor).
        LYRICAL BALLADS, with A few other Poems.
      J & A. Arch; T.N. Longman and O. Rees. 1798; 1800, London - 2 vols. pp. (x), 69, (ii), 70 - 210, errata leaf, advert leaf; (iv), 227, errata. 8vo. Later full morocco binding by Zaendorf with gilt lettering and ruled lines on the spine, top edge gilt, gilt dentelles. Vol 1 pp 113/114, Vol 2 pp 171/172 invisably repaired. Vol 1 is the 1st edition, 2nd or London issue with Coleridge's Lewti replaced by his The Nightingale. This accounts for the break in the pagination of Vol 1 and its replacement Contents leaf ; Vol 2 is the 1st edition, 1st issue. A very attractive set. Wise. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth p.28 & p. 34. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA]

RABELAIS, Francois.:
        OEUVRES DE MAITRE FRANCOIS RABELAIS, suivies des Remarques publiees en anglois par M. le Motteux, et traduites en francois par C. D. M. Nouvelle edition ornee de 76 gravures.
      Paris, Ferdinand Bastien, An VI, 1798. 3 volumes, complete set, FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ENGRAVINGS (1798). French text, 8vo, 215 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, portrait, and 75 engraved plates, 3 folding plates of Rabelais' home, folding map, and 71 unsigned engraved plates for Gargantua and Pantagruel, pages: (4), xvi, 471, (8); (2), 624, (10); (2), 595, only Volume I has a half-title, Contents table at the end of each volume, unnumbered in Volumes I and II, bound in full old calf, expertly rebacked, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, contrasting gilt lettered morocco labels, new endpapers. Neat repairs to some corners of covers, slight rubbing and shef wear to covers, pale browning to title page, most text pages lightly browned and lightly foxed to varying degrees, one or two plates faintly browned, margins to a few plates lightly foxed, tiny hole in 1 margin, small chip to edge of 1 margin, small corner torn off 1 text page, no loss to text, small closed tear to margin of 1 page of Contents table, neatly repaired, no loss, pale browning and spotting throughout, otherwise a good set, bindings tight and firm. Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures du XVIII siecle, 843; Brunet IV, page 1059. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

      [Bookseller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A.]

Bernardo de ORTA.
        MEXICO - VERACRUZ: PLANO DEL PUERTO DE VERACRUZ EN LA COSTA OCIDENTAL DEL SENO MEXICANO. POR DN. BERNARDO DE ORTA, CAPITAN DE NAVIO GRADUADO DE LA RL. ARMADA Y DE DICHO PUERTO. AÑO DE 1798.
      Copper engraving (Overall pleasant appearance, however, there are 2 small filled holes, 1 at centerfold in blank space in upper neatline and 1 in title in upper right just touching the ‘T’ in ‘PUERTO’, some minor creasing and a few very small light stains, 3 corners with restoration well outside of printed area, strong engraving impression), 50 x 64 cm (20 x 25 inches). - Madrid: Dirección de Hidrografía, 1798. A rare separately issued sea chart of Veracruz, historically Mexico’s main gateway to the Atlantic and Europe, the first printed scientific hydrographic survey of the harbour, by Captain Bernardo de Orta. - This exceedingly attractive celestial composition is packed with magnificent astronomical details and exciting allegory, and is one of the most beloved celestial works of the German Baroque era. Engraved by the master Melchior Rein, is it dominated by two large celestial hemispheres (Northern and Southern) taken from the work of the great Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (I611-87), as recently revised by the English polymath Sir Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742). In the surroundings, set aloft in a sea of clouds under a pageant of allegorical figures, is a series of seven astronomical diagrams. Starting from the bottom and working from left to right, is a diagram of the monthly orbit of the moon, following by images of the planetary systems as conceived by Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and Ptolemy; and then finally a diagram of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The image in the upper left depicts the Universe’s creation as proscribed by Genesis; while the diagram in the upper right depicts the monthly orbit and illumination of the moon. The map was created by Matthäus Seutter (1678 - 1757), one of the leading German cartographers of the 18th Century. The son of a goldsmith, Seutter apprenticed under Johann-Baptist Homann (1663 - 1724) of Nuremberg, the founder of Continental Europe’s most successful map enterprise. Early in the 18th Century, Seutter went out on his own, opening his own cartography establishment in Augsburg. While he struggled initially, his Baroque style of cartography, with strong engraving and bold original colours, echoed the tastes in fine art sand architecture of the time, and he eventually won a following. By the time he printed the present celestial chart, he had risen to forefront of map publishing in Europe, a status confirmed in 1732 by his appointment to Imperial cartographer to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. After Seutter’s death in 1757, his work was continued by Johann Michel Probst and Tobias Conrad Lotter. The present celestial chart appeared within Seutter’s Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae (Augsburg, circa 1730), although examples were also issued individually. The full original hand colour of the present example is especially fine. References: Kanas, Star Maps: History, Artistry and Cartography, no. 6.3.4.5; Warner, The Sky Explored, p. 245.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Dasa Pahor]

DICTIONARY].
        A New and General Biographical Dictionary; Containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation; particularly the British and Irish.
      Robinson London 1798 - Fifteen volumes, 8vo., contemporary speckled calf, spines in six gilt-ruled compartments, green morocco lettering piece to second, blue morocco numbering piece to fourth, others with gilt roundel. A complete set in handsome contemporary bindings. This was a "revised and augmented" version of the 1761-2 edition published in 11 volumes, designed "to supply all deficiencies" of the earlier set and add further prominent figures. The revision was led by William Tooke, a historian specialising in Russia, in collaboration with Robert Nares and William Beloe, both clergymen and writers. This edition sees the addition of famous figures including Gengis Khan, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Euclid and William Rowley. ESTC T138966. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Shapero Rare Books]

STAVORINUS Johan Splinter; WILCOCKE Samuel Hull trans
        Voyages to the East Indies  The whole comprising a full and accurate account of all the present and late possessions of the Dutch in India and at the Cape of Good Hope 
      First English edition. 3 vols. 4 folding engraved maps. 8vo. Modern blue morocco, gilt, King's Inn library stamps on the verso of each title and on the last leaflibrary stamps. viii, 572; 512; 598pp. London, Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson,

      [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd.]

Great Britain War Office
        1798 1ed Cavalry Regulations British Military Tactics Illustrated Napoleonic WAR
      [London] : Printed for the War Office by T. Egerton, 1798. First edition. - 1798 1ed Cavalry Regulations British Military Tactics Illustrated Napoleonic WAR An incredible first edition of ‘An Elucidation of his Majesty’s Cavalry Regulations’. This work, published by the British War Office, includes 31 folding plates of lines of battle, troop movements, attacks, defenses, weapons, charts, and diagrams. A second edition of this famous military book appeared a year after this, but it was printed with 12 fewer plates, a much less-desirable edition than this first. Item number: #1308 Price: $1250 Great Britain War Office An elucidation of several parts of his majesty's regulations for the formations and movements of cavalry. [London] : Printed for the War Office by T. Egerton, 1798. First edition. Details: • Collation complete with all pages: [1], 54, [46] o 31 illustrated plates • Binding: leather; tight & secure • Language: English • Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 1308 Photos available upon request. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Schilb Antiquarian]

Bacheracht, Therese von (geb. von Struve, verheiratete Freifrau von Lützow (1804-1852, Schriftstellerin.
        Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift. Mit schwarzer Tinte in deutscher Kurrentschrift auf Schreibpapier mit gekrönten Prägestempel "Therese". Dat. H. d. 26ten Oct. 1845.
      An Amand Struve (1798-1867), russischer Hofrat Gesandtschafts-Sekretär in Bern, Thereses Cousin. - Brief mit Dank für die Zeilen Amands, "die ich gewiß gleich beantwortet hätte, wäre ich nicht hier in einen wahren Strudel von ... häuslichen Miseren hineingerathen. ... ". Sie berichtet über Besuche bei Gutzkow in Mannheim und in Heidelberg. Dort bringt sie bei einem kranken Verwandten "... ist noch immer auf sein Sopha gebannt, ..., hülflos, von schmerzlichen Erinnerungen umgeben, ist das trostlos... Leider scheint mir das Verhältniß mit Anton nicht ganz ungetrübt" (Anton von Struve (1797-1846), russischer Kollegienrat, war erster Gesandtschafts-Sekretär beim Deutschen Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main und Bruder Amands). - Therese von Bacheracht verfaßte unter dem Namen "Therese" Romane, Novellen und Reisebeschreibungen, anonyme Herausgeberin der "Briefe von Wilhelm von Humboldt an eine Freundin" [d.i. Charlotte Diede]. Tochter des Diplomaten und Mineralogen Heinrich von Struve (1772-1851). - Mit hs. Vermerk "Erhalten d. 25. October, Beantwortet a. 19. Nov.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel]

Füßlin, Hans Rudolph
        Hans Rudolph Füßlin kritisches Verzeichnis der bessten, nach den berühmtesten Mahlern aller Schulen vorhandenen Kupferstiche....
      (...Für Liebhaber, die sich mittelst einer nicht zahlreichen, aber auserlesenen Sammlung von Kupferstichen deutliche Begriffe von dem, jedem klassischen Mahler eigenen Kunstcharakter erwerben wollen Band 1 - 4 ( so vollständig ) - Erscheinungszeitraum 1798 - 1806 ). Band 1 *Die Florentinische und Römische Schule* mit 300 Seiten und 1 Kupferstich-Vignette / Band 2 *Die Lombardische und Bolognesische Schule* mit 420 Seiten und 1 in Kupfer gestochenen Vignette von Coreggio / Band 3 *Die Venezianische Schule* mit 259 Seiten, 1 Blatt und 1 Kupferstichvignette / Band 4 *'Die Niederländische Schule* mit 278 Seiten und 1 in Kupfer gestochenen Vignette von Rubens. Jeder Band mit umfangreichem Register. Die Bände jeweils in Ohldr mit goldgeprägtem schmalen Einbandrücken, marmorierten Buchdeckeln und marmoriertem Buchschnitt, 8 ( 18,5 x 11 cm ). Einbände berieben, Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. Innen wenige Seiten gering fleckig, wenige Seiten stockfleckig ( wenige Seiten stärker stockfleckig ). - Als vollständige Ausgabe in 4 Bänden in erster Ausgabe sehr selten - ( Gesamtgewicht ca. 1500 Gramm ) ( Lagerort: Richey - DG ) ( Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage further pics at request )

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Friederichsen]

Drais von Sauerbronn, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich von:
        Beitraege Zur körperlichen und Seelendiaetetik Für Nervenschwache Mancher Art.
      Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Compagnie 1798 - 8°. 20 cm. [2] Blatt, 265 Seiten. Halblederband der Zeit mit aufgeklebtem Rückenschildchen. Erste Auflage. Einband fleckig und an der Oberkante minimal bestoßen. Rücken stärker berieben, unten mit Fehlstellen. Titelblatt mit Knickspur. Seiten teilweise stockfleckig. Gutes Exemplar. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Lenzen]

CASSINI GIOVANNI MARIA
        Le isole Canarie delineate sulle ultime osservazioni
      Calcografia camerale, Roma 1798 - Incisione in rame, mm 350x490. Non comune. Ottimo esemplare marginoso con lievissimo alone centrale e qualche macchia ai margini. Tratta dal "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", edito a Roma dal 1792 fino al 1801. La Calcografia Camerale gli commissionÚ l'opera per sostituire il "Mercurio Geografico". Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824), allievo di Piranesi, fu religioso, geografo, costruttore di globi e cartografo. Copper engraving, mm 350x490. Scarce map. From "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", printed in Rome form 1792 to 1801. Very good conditon, just a very light paper discoloration at centerfold and minor marginal defects cartografia.

      [Bookseller: libreria antiquaria perini Sas di Perini]

BUFFON). LACEPEDE (Comte de).
        Histoire Naturelle des Poissons.
      Plassan 1798 - Paris, Plassan, an VI-XI (1798-1803), 11 volumes in-12 reliés basane marbrée de l’époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches rouges. (2 coiffes usées, quelques coins émoussés, épidermures sur plusieurs plats). Première édition in-12, complète de ses 116 planches gravées. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Librairie Millescamps]

BROUGHTON Rev Brian 1767?-1839
        Four Picturesque Views in North Wales.
      Rev Brian Broughton, London Oxford 1798 - London Oxford: Rev Brian Broughton, 1798 Engraved in Aquatinta by Alken, from Drawings made on the spot. With Poetical reflections on leaving that country. In modern grey oblong cloth covers, with photocopied title to top cover and spine. Internally new endpapers, title page has a 7.5" closed tear, also 3 small worn holes or stab sown holes, edges a little chipped, 14 pp, 4 pl, errata pasted in, some browning and light foxing to a few fore-edges, paper watermarked J Whatman 1794, plates dated June 12, 1798, with 3 of the original tissue guards, the plates are Fall of the River Machno, Conway Castle, Pulpit of Hugh Llwyd and Pont y Glynn, plates are 42*30.5 cm and the leaves are 66*49 cm, the poems that runs throughout is "REFLECTION", with its own cloth covered slipcase with its copies title, a very good copy of a rare and fragile suite of engravings with added romantic topographical verse and much scarcer than the enlarged but much smaller paper edition of 1801. (ESTC T129793. see Allibone 255. & Graesse 548 for the later ed. WorldCat) See OBNB for a full Bio of Alken [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB)]

[ROSCOE, William], TANSILLO, Luigi
        The nurse, a poem. Translated from the italian of luigi tansillo
      Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davies, 1798. [2], 14, 67, [1], 12pp. With half-title. Contemporary green half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, marbled edges. Some rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers, occasional light marginal spotting, very small hole to margin of p.25-26, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of Roscoe's translation of Italian poet Luigi Tansillo's (1510-1568) verse intended to encourage women to suckle their own children. In his prefatory remarks, Roscoe, who dedicates his efforts in sonnet to his wife, illustrates his passion for the piece, stating; 'The subject is in a high degree interesting, and is treated in a manner peculiarly pointed and direct, yet without violating that decorum which is due to the public at large, and in particular to the sex to whom it is addressed'. ESTC T97229.. First edition. Quarto.

      [Bookseller: Antiquates]

CASSINI GIOVANNI MARIA
        Le isole Canarie delineate sulle ultime osservazioni
      Incisione in rame, mm 350x490. Non comune. Ottimo esemplare marginoso con lievissimo alone centrale e qualche macchia ai margini. Tratta dal "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", edito a Roma dal 1792 fino al 1801. La Calcografia Camerale gli commissionò l'opera per sostituire il "Mercurio Geografico". Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824), allievo di Piranesi, fu religioso, geografo, costruttore di globi e cartografo. Copper engraving, mm 350x490. Scarce map. From "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", printed in Rome form 1792 to 1801. Very good conditon, just a very light paper discoloration at centerfold and minor marginal defects

      [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Perini s.a.s.]

VAN REENEN Jacob; RIOU Edward
        Journal dun Voyage dans linterrieur de Afrique fait  en 1790 et 1791 par Jaques Van Reenen et autre Colons du Cap de Bonne Esperance a la recherche de lequipage du Grosvenor vaisseau de la Compagnie des Indes orientales angloise echoue en 1782 sur la cote des Caffres avec la decouverte des Hambonaas nation totalement differente des Caffres et placee au dela de celle connue sous le nom de Tamboukies
      First French edition.   8vo.   Original wrappers  with  leather backed chemise and slipcase.   78, [1]ads. pp.  Paris, Jansen,

      [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd.]

VANCOUVER, Captain George.
        A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world; in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver.
      London Robinson and Edwards 1798 - First edition. 4 volumes comprising 3 volumes 4to text, 1 volume atlas folio, half-titles to volumes I and III, 34 engraved plates and maps (17 engraved views printed on large paper and one map in text volumes, atlas with 10 maps and 6 coastal profiles, all folding); text volumes contemporary tree calf gilt, black and red morocco labels, nautical motifs to spines, atlas modern half calf to match, neat repairs to extremities, a fine set. First edition of one of the most difficult geographical surveys ever undertaken. Vancouver's voyage ranks among the most important in exploration literature. George Vancouver (1757-1798) had gained valuable experience on Cook's second and third voyages. He sailed by way of the Cape of Good Hope to Australia, where he discovered King George's sound and Cape Hood, then to New Zealand, Hawaii, and the northwest coast of America. In three seasons' work Vancouver surveyed the coast of California, visited San Francisco and San Diego and other Spanish settlements in Alta California investigated the Strait of Juan de Fuca, discovered the Strait of Georgia, circumnavigated Vancouver Island, and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay. "Of all the men who served under Cook, Vancouver was the only one whose work as a hydrographic surveyor placed him in the same class as his mentor. The care Vancouver took with the health of his crew during this voyage also mirrored Cook's achievements Almost all the names given by Vancouver on the north-west coast of America have survived" (ODNB). Vancouver retired to Surrey in 1795 to revise his journal for publication; the work was uncompleted on his death in 1798, and was completed by his brother John. Hill 1753; Howes V23; Lada-Mocarski 55; Sabin 98443; NMM Voyages & Travel, 142; Streeter sale VI: 3497. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Shapero Rare Books]

        Esercizio e manovre per l'istruzione delle milizie urbane del regno di Sicilia
      Reale Stamperia, 1798. in 16° - pp.2b + 92 +2b - Pergamena - Macchiline e piccole abrasioni alla pergamena, per il resto ottimo esemplare

      [Bookseller: Antica Libreria Srl]

Johann Gottfried Herder
        Briefe zu Beförderung der Humanität. Erste - Zehnte Sammlung (=Alles). In 2 Bänden.
      Riga, bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch 1793-1798. - Gestochenenes Frotispiz und zusammen 1821 S.; Register und Verlagsanzeigen. Grüne Leinenbände Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit goldgeprägter floraler Rückenvergoldung und Rückentitel. - Erste Ausgabe. - Frontispiz "Die Muse der Humanität" von Heinrich Meyer in Weimar gezeichnet und von ]ohann Heinrich Lips gestochen. - Nur wenige unbedeutende Flecken. Sonst schönes Exemplar in Romantiker-Einbänden. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Merz-Buchhandlung]

Malaspina, Alessandro; Brambila, Fernando
        Vista de la Ciudad de Santiago de Chile desde la falda del Cerro de Santo Domingo
      Copper engraved view of Santiago de Chile, by Brambila, ca. 1798. One of the most influent views of Chili´s Capital city, engraved by Brambila "Brambila lo delineó y gravó". Brambila (1763 - 1832) was an Italian artist of considerably ability; in 1789 he joined Alejandro Malaspina's scientific expedition as the official draughtsman. The crew included scientist, professional sailors and other artists. The position allowed him to visit Argentina & Chile -travelling by foot on occasions-, as well as Guam, Macau, the Philippines, amongst others. So celebrated were his designs made during the voyage, that in 1798, upon his return to Madrid, he was appointed "Pintor de Cámara". Malaspina´s voyage came in a difficult time for Spain; as a result the monumental work that had been planned never came to light. After five years at sea Malaspina returned home in 1794 and found the political situation of Spain not to his liking: his liberal tendencies led to his imprisonment in 1796 and exile after his release in 1802. His seven-volume account of his expedition was suppressed and remained unpublished until the late 19th century.

      [Bookseller: HS Rare Books]

BONN:
        Bonn. Sectio II Tab. VI':.
      - Kupferstich b. Wiebeking, 1798-1807, 30,5 x 62 Tooley's Dic. of Mapmakers S. 664. - Zeigt den Rheinlauf von Bonn-Limperich bis Köln-Ensen mit den beidseitigen Ufern. - Detaillierte Karte! - Oben links "Tabellarische Übersicht von der hydrometrischen Messung".

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Norbert Haas]

(ROBERT MORRIS)
        A Letter Of Protest Concerning A Robert Morris Unfulfilled Promissory Note; Morris Was Already In Debtor's Prison When This Was Filed
      DS. 1pg. 8" x 13". July 21, 1798. Philadelphia. A letter of protest signed "Peter Lohra", protesting the bad promissory note written by John Nicholson to Robert Morris on July 17, 1795. The partly printed document states to condition of the bounced note at the top, then states "Be it known, That on the Day of the Date hereof, I, Peter Lohra, Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by lawful authority duly Commissioned and Sworn, residing in the City of Philadelphia, in the said Commonwealth, at the Request of Mr. Walter Smith went to the Compting House of John Nicholson drawer of the original promissory note whereof the above is a true copy in order to demand payment but found the same shut up and no person there to answer or pay the said note wherefore I left notice of the nonpayment thereof at the Compting House of Robert Morris the indorser [sic] Whereupon I, the said Notary, at the Request aforesaid, Have and Do hereby solemnly Protest against the Drawer of the said Promissory Note, and all others concerned, for all Exchange, re-Exchange, Costs, Damages, and Interest suffered and to be suffered for want of Payment thereof. Thus Done and Protested at Philadelphia aforesaid, the twenty-first Day of July 1798. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed my Notarial Seal, the Day and Year abovewritten." At the top of the document is a handwritten copy of the bad promissory note, dated July 18, 1795 and signed by Nicholson and Morris; it states "Three years after date I promise to pay Robt Morris Esqr or order Five thousand Dollars for value received." Obviously, the 1795 promissory note was never paid, and Morris was already in debtors prison by the time this letter of protest was filed. The document has an embossed seal in the lower left corner and was folded three times. The condition is fine.

      [Bookseller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.]

PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
        The View of Hindoostan.
      Henry Hughes, London 1798 - London: Henry Hughes, 1798. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Sowerby. Nicholas Pococke. T Daniell. Hoare. S Stone. JW Hodges. 2 Vols, VG+, 1st Ed, 1 Map, 21 plates, 2 vignettes. Two volumes, full contemporary speckled calf, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn, tips repaired. Spines, relaid retaining the old, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to red and green morocco labels. Internally, bookplate of Heytesbury House to fpds (Lord Heytesbury), hinges strengthened, text block edges speckled. Vol 1, Western Hindoostan, frontis present, [2], [1], (ii-v), [11], [1], 2-263 pp, [1], [9] index, map, 8 plates, 1 head piece, errata leaf. Vol 2, Eastern Hindoostan, frontis present, [10], [1], 2-374 pp, [13] index, 13 plates, 1 head piece. Occasional light foxing and offsetting, map spotted, occasional chips. (ESTC T145966 vol 1&2. Lowndes 1824. Allibone 1554) These two volumes were his last publications on the subject of natural history. A very nice set. "He projected about 1793 a work in fourteen volumes, to be called 'Outlines of the globe'; he published two volumes dealing with India and Ceylon, and vols. III and IV (China and Japan) were issued posthumously." (DNB). [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB)]

Stolberg-Stolberg, Christian Gf. zu, Schriftsteller und Übersetzer (1748-1821).
        Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("C. Stolberg").
      Tremsbüttel, 21. VII. 1798. - 2 SS. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An einen namentlich nicht genannten Adressaten: "Sie haben mir, Liebster Freund, unterm 16. v. M. einen kleinen Wechsel [.] gesendet der sofort ausbezahlt worden ist. Sie waren diese Summe an unseren alten Abraham Sibylletta schuldig und ich habe sie diesem sofort überwiesen. Hier ist die original Quittung die ich Ihnen zusende. Der Secunda Wechsel ist gleichfalls in Ihrem Briefe an meinen Freund vom 6. d. gekommen, den ich sogleich mit der Bemerkung daß die Prima berichtiget sei an Lawä[t]z übermacht habe. Hiemit wär also diese kleine Geschichte beendiget. Haben Sie sonst Aufträge so bitte ich Sie sehr dringend sie mir immer anzuvertrauen, sie sollen gewiß mit dem Eifer der Freundschaft ausgerichtet werden [.]". - Bei dem erwähnten Lawä[t]z wird es sich um einen der vier Brüder Lawätz - Christian Otto (1745-1801), Heinrich Wilhelm (1748-1825), Johann Daniel (1750-1826) oder Ferdinand Otto Volrath (1751-1840) - gehandelt haben; letzterer, Justizrat Ferdinand Otto Vollrath Lawätz, war von 1774 bis 96 Besitzer des adeligen Gutes Bramstedt gewesen, das von 1751 bis 56 im Eigentum von Christians Stolbergs gleichnamigem Vater Graf Christian Günther zu Stolberg (1714-1765) gestanden war. Als musterhaftes Beispiel späterer Bauernbefreiungen hob Ferdinand Otto Vollrath auf seinem Gut die Leibeigenschaft auf, wandte sich - teils unter dem Pseudonym Theodor Sclavenfeind - publizistisch gegen die Leibeigenschaft und wurde darin u. a. von Andreas Peter Graf von Bernstorff (1735-1797) unterstützt, dem Gatten von Christian Stolbergs Schwestern Henriette Katharina und - nach deren Tod - Augusta Louise. - Christian Stolberg selbst verkaufte zwei Jahre darauf, also i. J. 1800, seinen Besitz in Tremsbüttel und erwarb das Gut Windeby bei Eckernförde. - Ohne die erwähnte Quittung.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]

POMMEREUL, François René Jean de.
        Buonaparte`s Feldzüge in Italien. Aus dem Französischen des Bu rgers P** [d.i. Pommereul, François René Jean de] General-Officers der französischen Armee [von Julius FREY].
      Leipzig, Karl Willhelm Küchler 1798. - Fromm II, 4420; Kircheisen I, 2904. Zweite deutsche Übersetzung nach der 1797 erschienenen, französischen Originalausgabe `Campagne du General Buonaparte en Italie, pendant les annees IVe et Ve de la Republique francaise`. Bericht über Napoleons Feldzug in Italien (1796/1797) verfasst durch den französischen General u. Historiker Francois Rene Jean de Pommereul (1745-1823). 8°. Gest. Titel m. Vignette, IV, 458 S. Mit Front. (Reiterbild Napoleons gest. v. [Johann August] Roßmäßler nach Carle Vernet), 1 Tafel (Portr. v. [Andre] Massena gest. v. W. Böhm) u. 1 mehrf. gef. Karte (gest. Endner) in Kupferstich. Halblederbd. d. Zeit auf 4 falschen Bünden m. Titel (auf mont. Papierschild) sowie kl. Fileten in Goldpräg. auf Rücken, Deckelbezügen aus Kleisterpapier und umseitigem Rotschnitt. Einband an den Kanten z. Tl. berieben, Namenszug v. alter Hd. auf Titel, im Text papierbedingt gebräunt u. tlw. wasserrandig.

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GILLRAY, James (1756 - 1815)
        Consequences of a successful French invasion
      No. 1. Plate 1st.  "We come to recover your long lost liberties" - Scene. The House of Commons. London: James Gillray, March 1st 1798. Etching printed in sanguine, 315 x 360 mm (edge of image, including text), trimmed, laid on paper, old creases and dicolouration, a few areas of loss to lower margin. A satirical depiction of the House of Commons if the planned French invasion was successful, a caption in the image reads 'This house adjourned to Botany Bay' with the members of the House garbed as convicts, shackled for their journey. The first of a series of four plates engraved by Gillray after descriptions written by Sir John Dalrymple, which illustrate the impact Napoleon's invasion would have on English society. The text descriptions by Dalrymple were originally published in a prospectus, with twenty plates intended to complete the series. Dalrymple hoped the etchings would take on the form of popular propoganda, and so they were priced at sixpence each (uncoloured, a shilling coloured), rather than the usual shilling (or two, if coloured). Gillrary was unhappy with this price, and so only four plates were completed of the twenty, and the remainder, while described in Dalrymple's original prospectus, never created. The plate was restruck in a more commonly found edition by Bohn in the 1850s, but the original 1798 impression is rare. KING, Jonathan. The other side of the coin : a cartoon history of Australia. Melbourne : Cassell, 1976, p. 18 (illustrated)

      [Bookseller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books]

STAVORINUS Johan Splinter; WILCOCKE Samuel Hull trans
        Voyages to the East Indies. The whole comprising a full and accurate account of all the present and late possessions of the Dutch in India, and at the Cape of Good Hope.
      1798 - First English edition. 3 vols. 4 folding engraved maps. 8vo. Modern blue morocco, gilt,King's Inn library stamps on the verso of each title and on the last leaflibrary stamps. viii, 572; 512; 598pp. London, Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson, A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East, the author was at the time of writing a post captain in the Dutch marine. He made two voyages whence the information contained herein was derived. The work also ?affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century? (Mendelssohn). Mendelssohn II, p426. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA]

BÜRGER, [Gottfried August].
        The Wild Huntsman's Chase. From the German of Bürger, Author of Lenore.
      Printed and sold by Sampson Low . sold also by R. Faulder, and E. Booker., London 1798 - First edition in book form, the Schwerdt and Duke of Gloucester copy, of this anonymous translation of Bürger's 'Der Wilde Jäger'. A note on the leaf following the title states: 'The following Translation appeared in one of the public prints on the 26th of October, 1796. A few weeks after an elegant version of the Ballad, which had been advertised about the same time, was given to the Public by another hand, under the title of The Chase' [referring Sir Walter Scott's first published literary work The Chase and William and Helen: Two Ballads from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger]. The present translation received surprisingly few contemporary notices and the Critical Review remarked that the work would probably never have been translated had it not been for the 'great and deserved reputation of Lenore', the work which brought Bürger European fame. 4to (258 × 196 mm), pp. 15, [1]; twentieth-century three quarter calf, gilt; Schwerdt and Gloucester bookplates; a fine copy. [Jackson, p. 231; Schwerdt I, p. 87; ESTC lists 4 UK copies (BL, Bodley, Cambridge and NLS) and 5 in the US (Clark, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas and Yale).] [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd ABA]

VAN REENEN Jacob; RIOU Edward
        Journal d'un Voyage dans l'interrieur de 'Afrique, fait en 1790 et 1791, par Jaques Van Reenen et autre Colons du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, a la recherche de l'equipage du Grosvenor, vaisseau de la Compagnie des Indes orientales angloise, echoue en 1782 sur la cote des Caffres; avec la decouverte des Hambonaas, nation totalement differente des Caffres, et placee au dela de celle connue sous le nom de Tamboukies.
      1798 - First French edition. 8vo. Original wrappers with leather backed chemise and slipcase. 78, [1]ads. pp. Paris, Jansen, Originally printed in an Englishtranslation( 1792,100 copies only) from van Reenen's Dutch ms. then re-translated back into Dutch ( Leyden,1793) and here thirdly offered in French, but according to Mendessohn with ? some matter not included in the original edition? Van Reenen lead a party of twelve in order to find the wreck and determine if there were any survivors. They covered new ground and made contact with a tribe the ?Hambonaas? who had looked afterthreegirls, apparently saved from the wreck. They wanted to stay until their crops had been harvested and were allowed so to do. their fate is unrecorded. Mendelssohn Vol. 1 652/3 [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA]

Daniel LESCALLIER
        Exposé des moyens de mettre en valeur et d'administrer la Guiane
      Second edition, rare, with large foldout map in fine. Binding half calf antique brown. Back smooth decorated with five florets and casters. part of title in red morocco. Lack tail. Friction. A blunt corner. A thin restoration low mage paper of the title page, same text on another sheet. Good copy. Chez Du Pont à Paris 1798 In-8 (12x20cm) xxiv, 237pp. relié

      [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]

Weyermann, Albrecht (Hg.).
        Nachrichten von Gelehrten, Künstlern und andern merkwürdigen Personen aus Ulm.
      Ulm, gedruckt bey Christian Ulrich Wagner, dem Vater und in Kommission bei P. P. Wolf in Leipzig, 1798. 8°. 4 Bll., 563 S., 2 Bll. (das letzte weiß), Ppbd. d. Zt. Erstausgabe dieses seltenen biographischen Lexikons mit tlw. umfangreichen „Nachrichten“ über Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Handwerker, Theologen usw. - 1829 erschien noch ein zweiter Band. - Ehem. Bibl.-Exemplar mit entsprechenden Merkmalen (Bibl.-Schildchen bzw. -Signaturen u. gestempelt). Einband stärker berieben, bestoßen u. fleckig. Etw. gebräunt bzw. fleckig. - Heyd 6366. Versand D: 12,00 EUR Weyermann, Nachrichten von Gelehrten, Künstlern und andern merkwürdigen Personen aus Ulm, Biographien, Biographisches Lexikon, Biographische Lexika

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Friebes]

Lesage (Alain-René)
        L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.
      T-B Bertin 1798 - 6 vols. bound in 3, each vol. with an engraved frontispiece, vol. i with what seems to be intended as an additional engraved title-page (after Angelica Kauffman) but without lettering, 12mo, finely bound by Simier (signed at the foot of vol. i) in calf, green onlaid gilt roll tooled borders on sides, the centres diced, flat spines richly gilt and with twin black lettering pieces, gilt edges, corners slightly worn, bookplate of Réné Amédée Choppin de Villy in vols. i & iii (apparently removed from vol. ii), very good. The library of Réné Amédée Choppin de Villy (1806-86) was sold in 1920.

      [Bookseller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA]

Lieber, Francis (Franz).
        Sammelband mit 15 kleineren Schriften des deutschamerikanischen Staatswissenschaftlers. Mit zahlreichen Korrekturen u. Ergänzungen von der Hand Liebers sowie einem eh. Namenszug.:
      - Francis Lieber (1798-1872), dt. Politikwissenschaftler, Publizist u. Historiker. L. Floh 1826 aus Deutschland zunächst nach London, 1827 nach Boston. Er wurde 1832 eingebürgert, arbeitete als Korrespondent sowie als Herausgeber der `Encyclopaedia Americana`, ging 1835 als Professor der Geschichte und Politischen Ökonomie ans South Carolina College. "Mit seinen Schriften wurde L. im eigentlichen Sinne zum Begründer der Politischen Wissenschaft in den USA, widmete sich aber auch Problemen des Strafrechts, der Gefängnisreform und anderen praktischen Aufgaben. Ungeachtet eines gewissen persönlichen Opportunismus spielte dabei die Sklavereifrage, insoweit sie die nationale Einheit sprengte, eine zunehmende Rolle in L.s Denken, so daß er (auch wegen persönlicher Zurücksetzungen) seine Professur am S. C. College aufgab und 1857 nach New York ging. Hier erhielt er noch im gleichen Jahr den Lehrstuhl für Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft, von dem er 1865 in die Columbia Law School überwechselte; doch war er als Lehrer wenig erfolgreich. Der Bürgerkrieg steigerte L.s Nationalismus bis zur Mißachtung der Bundesverfassung, so daß er selbst dubiose Maßnahmen der Regierung und des Kongresses guthieß. Um Übergriffe in Feindesland verhüten zu helfen, entwarf er 1863 auf Veranlassung des Generalstabschefs H. W. Halleck für die Unionstruppen die erste umfassende Dienstanweisung für die Landkriegführung (General Orders No. 100), die 1870 auch von Preußen übernommen wurde und dann als Grundlage des modernen Kriegsrechts diente. L. war ein Parteigänger des Präs. Lincoln und Befürworter einer harschen Reconstruction-Politik gegenüber den Südstaaten, vertrat aber in den Nachkriegsjahren wieder einen sozialkonservativen politischen Kurs . hatte fraglos bedeutende Verdienste durch seine Verschmelzung europäischen politischen Gedankengutes mit der amerikan. Staatspraxis." NDB 14,478 `Guerilla Parties.` New York, Nostrand 1862. 22 S. - `General Orders, No. 100.` Washington, War Department 1863. 26 S. - `A Song on our Country and her Flag, written in 1861` New York, Baker & Godwin [1861]. 1 Bl. - `Unterweisung für deutsche Soldaten .` Washington, 1968. 15 (2)S. - `Washington and Napoleon. A Fragment.` New York 1864. 12 S. - `No Party Now but All for Our Country`. Rev. Edition. New York, Westcott 1863. 8 S. - `Plantation for Slave Labor, the Death of the Yeomanry.` New York, Loyal Publication Society 1865. 8 S. - `Arguments of the Secessionists.` New York, Holman 1863. 7 S. - Lincoln oder McClellan? : Aufruf an die Deutschen in Amerika.` New York, H. Ludwig (1864). 4 S. - Lincoln or McClellan? : appeal to the Germans in America. [New York, Loyal Publication Society] 1864. 8 S. - Lincoln of McClellan? : Oproep aan die Hollanders in Amerika. New York, Loyal Publication Society 1865. 4 S. - `An Address on Secession.` New York, Loyal Publication Society 1865. 12 S. - `A Letter to Hon. E.D. Morgan .` New York, Loyal Publication Society 1865. 4 S. - `Amendments of the Constitution .` New York, Loyal Publication Society 1865. 39 S. - `Nationalism. A Fragment of Political Science.` (New York, Press of Fisher & Field) [186-]. 6 S.- adleg.: `Circular betreffend die Erwirkung und Erhebung von Pensionen, für geleistete Militärdienste, bei den Vereinigten Staaten zu Washington. (Washington 1868). 1 Bl.

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Barrow, John.
        An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798.
      2 Bände. Mit 8 colorierten Aquatinta-Tafeln sowie 9 (davon 3 color.) gefalteten gestochenen Karten. Complete Set. - Barrow gibt eine ausgezeichnete Beschreibung von Fauna, Flora, Geologie, Mineralogie, etc. Er "gab als erster eine vollständige Beschreibung der Kap-Kolonie, deren Umfang man auch durch ihn erst kennenlernte. Die Vollendung der nördlichen Grenzlinie war eine der Hauptaufgaben seiner Reisen gewesen. Seine auf eigenen Beobachtungen fußende Karte leitete eine Wende in der karthographischen Darstellung Süd-Afrikas ein... Sie war die erste gedruckte Karte, die das zentrale Kapland in den Grundzügen richtig wiedergab" (Henze I, 173. - 010

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BUCH'OZ (Pierre-Joseph)]
        Méthode de Maupin, sur la manière de cultiver la vigne, et l'art de faire du vin. Nouvelle édition, Revue, corrigée et augmentée de deux mémoires..., Avec figures
      A Paris, chez Delaplace, an VII (1798-1799), in-8, VIII-304 p, 2 planches dépliantes, demi basane blonde de l'époque, pièce de titre verte, dos lisse et fleuronné, Édition fort rare donnée par Buch'oz qui a rassemblé ici plusieurs traités de Maupin en supprimant ce qui était devenu inutile ou répétitif. Elle est illustrée de 2 jolies planches dépliantes gravées à l'eau-forte. Exemplaire très propre, basane un peu frottée. Oberlé, Fastes, n° 935.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Alain Brieux]

GILLRAY, James
        Consequences of a successful French invasion
      No. 1. Plate 1. “We come to recover your longlost liberties”. Scene: The House of Commons. London:James Gillray, 1798 (the Bohn restrike of 1851). Etchingwith later hand colouring, 270 x 385mm; framed. Satirical depictionof the House of Commons if the planned French invasionwas successful, a caption in the image reads ‘This houseadjourned to Botany Bay’ with the members of the Housegarbed as convicts, shackled for their journey. Restrikeof the 1798 plate by Henry Bohn, with the permission ofGillray’s widow.

      [Bookseller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books]

SUBOTIN, Alexandr [director] and Fedor CHUMIKHIN [artist].
        Plan stolichnago goroda Sankt-Peterburga 1798 goda.
      

      [Bookseller: Henry Sotheran Ltd.]

SUCKOW, Lorenz Johann Daniel.
        Erste Gründe der bürgerlichen Baukunst in einem Zusammenhange entworfen. Mit XXXV Kupfern. 4. veränd. u. verm. Aufl.
      Jena, W. Stahl 1798. - Poggend. 2,1046. Vgl. GV 142,198. ADB 37,105. Hamberger/M. 3,667f. Cat. of the Avery Memorial Architectural Libr. of Columbia Univ. 17,771 (2. Aufl.) - Schönes Architekturlehrbuch (Erstaufl. 1751) d. Jenaer Professors f. Physik u. Mathematik, S. (1722-1801), d. in einigen Auflagen erschienen ist. Vorliegende 4. Aufl. stellt die umfangreichste u. vollständigste dar. 4°. Titelbl., 4 nn. Bll. (Vorrede), 332 S., 11 nn. Bll. (Index, Verbesserungen), 19 gef. Taf. mit 35 Kpfr. Halblederband d. Zeit, mit e. goldgeprägten Rückenschild u. goldgeprägten Rückenzierlinien, Einbanddeckel marmoriert, Rücken etw. berieben, Ecken u. Kanten bestoßen, Seiten nur wenig vergilbt u. schwach stockfleckig. Mit je e. Namensz. v. alter Hand am Titelblatt u. am vorderen fliegenden Vorsatzblatt. Breitrandiger Druck.

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TAZEWELL, William.
        Vade-mecum medicum, in duas partes divisum, ...Leiden, Abraham and Jan Honkoop, 1800. 12mo. Contemporary mottled boards.
      Cowen, America's pre-pharmacopoeial literature, pp. 21-22; STCN (1 copy); Founders online (letters to Tazewell from Washington and Jefferson); Wellcome V, p. 241; WorldCat (2 copies). Rare second edition of "the first general (as distinguished from hospital) 'pharmacopoeia' compiled by an American" (Cowen), first published at Paris in 1798. The first part of the book is a classification of diseases, and is taken word for word from the influential 1769 nosology by the Scottish physician William Cullen. The second part is a pharmacopoeia, divided into materia medica and composite medicines. The introduction notes that it is based on the author's notes made at the University of Edinburgh, the London pharmacopoeia and Joseph Townsend's The physicians' vade mecum (1794) (p. x). Between the two parts can be found a list translating the Latin names of the chemical preparations, "which not all readers will view as sufficiently legitimate" (p. 77) into the modern English and French nomenclature.William Tazewell (d. 1832) was an American physician who had studied in Edinburgh and in 1797-1800 was secretary to Elbridge Gerry in Paris. After returning to the United States, Tazewell set up a medical practice in Williamsburg and later moved to Virginia. In 1803 he presented copies of his Vade-mecum to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the latter writing that "it has really brought the whole science of diseases & remedies within the shortest compass possible, and, not meddling with the details of the science himself, it presents exactly such a general view of every part of it, as [Jefferson] often wishes to take" (Cowen).With a small price in pen on the first flyleaf. Only some thumbing on the last 30 pages, otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. Boards slightly worn and spine cracked, but still structurally sound.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]

[CAWTHORN, George, editor].
        A Complete View of the Chinese Empire. Exhibited in a Geographical Description on its Antiquity, and a Genuine and Copius Account of the Earl Macartney's Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China.
      

      [Bookseller: Henry Sotheran Ltd.]

MUNFORD, WILLIAM.
        Poems, and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions.
      Richmond: Printed by Samuel Pleasants, 1798. 8vo, original quarter sheep and blue paper boards. The first book by William Munford (1775-1825), a collection of verse, prose and one play. Munford was a native of Virginia and the son of Revolutionary War soldier and dramatist Robert Munford (d. 1784). In his poetry, Munford skillfully lampoons politicians, as his father did in his plays, but there are also patriotic and historical poems, such as his piece on the Battle of Fallen Timbers, entitled "A Poem on the Defeat of General St. Clair." The play is entitled "Almoran and Hamet, A Tragedy founded on an Eastern Tale of the Name." Lacking the free endpapers; some foxing and wear; overall a very good copy.

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MACARTNEY George Lord
        Voyage dans l'intérieur de la Chine, et en Tartarie, fait dans les années 1792, 1793 et 1794
      Chez Buisson 1798 - - Chez Buisson, A Paris 1798 - 1799, In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) viij, 515pp. et (4) 412pp. et (4) 399pp. et (4) 326pp., 5 volumes reliés. - Edition originale illustrée de 4 frontispices et 3 grandes cartes dépliantes en fin du tome 4 (excellentes cartes du voyage, de la Chine.). Nombreux tableaux en fin du volume 4, sur le commerce, la monnaie. Reliures en pleine basane blonde porphyre d'époque. Dos lisses ornés de 2 fers différents, roulettes à l'emplacement des nerfs et en queue. Pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin vert. Frise d'encadrement sur les plats. Coiffe de tête du tome I en partie élimée. Un coin émoussé. Quelques traces de frottement. Très bel exemplaire. Ce voyage fut assemblé d'après les papiers de Lord Macartney ainsi que des commandants et des ambassadeurs du voyage par le secrétaire de Macartney, sir George Staunton. Macartney fut envoyé en Chine sur ordre du roi george III en ambassade extraordinaire pour la première fois dans le but d'établir des relations commerciales, de rencontrer les élites chinoises et de rapporter de son voyage toutes les observations possibles. Il embarqua à Portsmouth avec trois navires, Le lion, l'Indostan et le Chacal. Macartney traversa en grande partie le pays en s'arrêtant à Tianjin et Pekin. Cependant, en raison de coutumes différentes, l'ambassade fut un échec complet. Pour les Chinois, les relations dipomatiques ne pouvaient se faire sur un pied d'égalité, les ambassadeurs devaients se prosterner devant l'empereur et lui prêter allégeance, ce que Macartney refusa, celui-ci ne pouvant accepter une quelconque subordination du roi d'Angleterre à l'empereur de Chine. Le rejet catégorique chinois des relations commerciales entraînèrent les prémices de ce qui constituera les guerres de l'opium et la chute de l'empire chinois. L'ouvrage demeure une des meilleures descriptions des contrées traversées par Macartney, offrant des informations précises sur les sciences, l'histoire naturelle, l'aristocratie. et sera eminemment utile aux suiveurs de Macartney. NB : Cet ouvrage est disponible à la librairie sur demande sous 48 heures. [AUTOMATIC ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] first edition illustrated with 4 frontispices and 3 large folding maps at the end of volume 4 (excellent maps of the trip, China .). Many tables at the end of volume 4, on trade, currency . Bindings in full blanket porphyry blond contemporary. Smooth backs decorated with 2 different irons, roulettes at the site of the nerves and in tail. Title and tomato pieces in green morocco. Frieze framing on the boards. Head cap of Volume I partly wiped off. A blunt corner. Some traces of friction. Very nice copy. This voyage was assembled from the papers of Lord Macartney, and from the commanders and ambassadors of the voyage, by the secretary of Macartney, Sir George Staunton. Macartney was sent to China by order of King George III as an extraordinary embassy for the first time in order to establish commercial relations, to meet the Chinese elites and to report all possible observations on his voyage. He embarked at Portsmouth with three ships, The Lion, the Inspinetan, and the Jackal. Macartney crossed most of the country by stopping at Tianjin and Beijing. However, due to different customs, the embassy was a complete failure. For the Chinese, dipomatic relations could not be made on an equal footing, the ambassadors had to prostrate themselves before the emperor and lend him allegiance, which Macartney refused, since he could not accept any subordination of the king of France, England to the Emperor of China. The Chinese categorical rejection of commercial relations led to the beginnings of what would constitute the wars of opium and the fall of the Chinese empire. The book remains one of the best descriptions of the lands traversed by Macartney, offering precise information on the sciences, natural history, the aristocracy . and will be eminently useful to the followers of Macartney. (4) viij, 515pp. et (4) 412pp. et (4) 39 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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CAWTHORN, George, editor].
        A Complete View of the Chinese Empire. Exhibited in a Geographical Description on its Antiquity, and a Genuine and Copius Account of the Earl Macartney's Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China.
      - London, printed and published by G. Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand, 1798. 8vo. Contemporary full tree calf; spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco lettering-piece; pp. 8, lxxi , 456 (erratic pagination), [2, advertisements], engraved frontispiece (foxing as ususal); hinges restored; internally, apart from very light spotting mainly to margins a clean and fresh copy, printed on light green paper stock, matching light green endpapers; provenance: inscription, dated 1809, B to A Hebron on one of the two front fly-leaves; very beautiful China-themed etched and aquatinted bookplate for Bernard Hanotiau, the Belgian collector of books on China, signed by the artist, on both front free endpapers. First edition, the issue on light green paper, complete with half-title and final advertisement leaf in a contemporary binding. This is the accurate and highly legible account of the first British embassy to China, led by George Macartney, Great Britain's first envoy to China. The aim was to establish a permanenet mission in Beijing and gain access to a few trading places and alleviate the restrictions on British merchants in Guangzhou (Canton). The embassy did not gain any concessions; however, this book is a fascinating report on how the British delegation experienced the Chinese Empire, as a well-oiled machine, rather humane, when it came to capital punishment or the governance of the civil society. Earl George Macartney (1737 - 1806) was an experienced diplomat and colonial governor. 'His party, which numbered ninety-four, including Staunton and a galaxy of experts, embarked in the Lion on 26 September 1792. Samples of the best British manufactures, with mechanical toys to entertain the octogenarian emperor Qianlong, were shipped. After enjoying the customary spectacles enjoined by Chinese hospitality, Macartney was presented to Qianlong at Jehol on 14 September 1793. The event, in which Macartney alone was able to avoid making the ceremonial kowtow to the emperor, was caricatured by Gillray. Thereafter he barely glimpsed the emperor. The premier Heshan refused to negotiate a treaty of trade and friendship, and Macartney was handed his dismissal on 3 October, a week after reaching Peking . Macartney concluded that China could easily be bombarded, but accepted that the potential for commercial expansion by British traders was thwarted by the Chinese refusal to allow a resident minister in Peking. He returned home via Canton (Guangzhou), where he held talks about improving conditions for the British merchants, but he made no progress on reforming the unsatisfactory system then in operation' (ODNB). [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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